The work was made in the studio of the sculpture department at the Academy of Fine Arts. A hen appears in the studio and waddles across the room. The prevailing colours of the image are various shades of blue. The hen is caught in a sculpture installation with a television set screening scenes from current Slovenian politics, with swastikas and church services. At the end, the picture completely disintegrates, with only the footage of the hen remaining, liberated from the media field/television. Animal rights are predominant themes in the artist’s work.

OTHER WORKS

Damijan Kracina, Vladimir Leben - Galapagos (00:05:39)Production: 2005The video was created for a joint exhibition by Leban and Kracina entitled Galapagos. We see close-ups of an artificial installation of Galapagos Island, with a volcano at its centre. When individual animal species or motifs appear, the shots of the Islan...

Damijan Kracina, Katarina Toman Kracina - Marmelada / Marmalade (00:03:37)Production: 2004Are you familiar with that tingling feeling somewhere that emerges around the root of your tongue when you eat marmalade without bread and butter? The marmalade sticks to your palate and its taste lingers in your mouth for a long time. It's that spec...

Damijan Kracina, Vladimir Leben - Ape Boys (00:12:11)Production: 2004This music video with Damijan Kracina on bass and Vladimir Leben on drums was first a video performance in an installation in which the scenery simulated the ape’s natural habitat, similarly to what is done in TV documentaries. The video is exhibite...

Damijan Kracina - Zoospective (00:11:53)Production: 2000The video summarises the basic motifs of the artist’s work: endangered species and fantasy animals of the future. It comprises an omnibus of five individual video pieces and additional raw video footage. First, we see ‘proteus’, a comput...

Damijan Kracina - Thylacinus Cynocephalus (00:01:09)Production: 2000The video reconstructs the movements of the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus), which became extinct in 1936. A year before the video was created, the Australian Museum in Sydney began developing methods for preserving the genetic material of the a...

Damijan Kracina - Aquarium (00:01:12)Production: 1997Underwater footage of the flight of the Soča trout, which is endangered due to irresponsible human farming of the common trout in the former’s natural habitat. The swimming fish opening their mouths are silent witnesses of human actions.

Damijan Kracina - The Ant (00:03:53)Production: 1997The video shows the last minute in the life of a dying ant which is stuck on an adhesive surface. At exhibitions, the static footage is presented on a miniature screen, with the ant practically life-size. The author discusses human irresponsibility and me...

Damijan Kracina - Točka nič / Point Zero (00:02:07)Production: 1996The video consists of three parallel strips showing the same footage in different time frames. It seems that we are following a video of the countryside shot from a moving car. The upper and lower strips follow the same timeline, while the strip in the ce...

Damijan Kracina - Žeblji / Nails (00:06:34)Production: Akademija za likovno umetnost, Ljubljana, 1995The black-and-white footage of a performance shot from a static camera dates to the time when the artist was studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. The performer looks at sculpted busts, and hammers nails into them, seeking a way to examine th...

Damijan Kracina - Kocka / Cube (0:03:39)Production: 1995A group event staged in public spaces - at a bus stop and in the garden of the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana - took place on 22 March, World Water Day. The event was intended to draw attention to this day not by moralising, but by emphasising the joy...

Damijan Kracina - Koncert za bas kitaro in gipsasto kocko (00:01:04)Production: 1995The Concert for Bass Guitar and Plaster Cube was performed by the artist in 1993 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, where he studied sculpture between 1991 and 1995. The brief performance refers to the main issues of contemporary sculpture, explori...

Damijan Kracina - Kracina TV (00:06:24)Production: 1995A hyper-realistic latex sculpture of the artist stands in the middle of a room in Kapelica Gallery, where the artist first presented the installation. The sculpture’s low pedestal is connected to seven monitors into which the figure gazes, while lig...

Damijan Kracina - A collage of excepts by Kracina (00:03:09)Production: 1995A collage of three video works. The first shows footage of an exhibition at Trdnjavi Kluže Gallery in Bovec, where the artist presented one of his first statues of animals – a remote-controlled skunk. The second video is a study of changes in colou...